Wichita eagle., 1887-04-15

1. ID. F0utS-t am in favor OF selling the
old court house and building new one.
Z. r. Hatfield, Grant township-I would
say sell the present court honse and build q
new one. The present building is too small
house square by all means.
Henry Schweiter-As Mr.. Munger gave
ground for q court house in order TO en-
hance the value Of his property, and as the
county has never put anything there but an
old sinking Jail, l am now il favor OF giving
the square 70 Mrs. Munger
Hon. r. E. Lawrence-I am decidedly In
favor of the city buying the present county
building and OF the county building re-
spectacle court house on the square.
John Wilkins-I should think everybody
would he in favor Of that.
A W Onver-The sooner we hui d a court
house the poorer we will build. In five years
| va viii want much better court house than
We would be likely to build now. am in
favor OF new court house il we build a
good one
J. a. Richards-Build good court house
now and add to it as we need it.
j. n. Lowe, Derby-I would be in favor OF
| a good court house and Jail.
E. J. kuehn-I live in Mulvare, just across
the line, in Sumner county. Ny barn is in
| Sedgwick county. For the sake of the barn
l am in favor of a new court house.
Geo. Rooter, Salem-We need better
court house in this county.
Albert Law, Rockford That is q good idea,
we want good court house.
William Parker, Salem-We need new
court house, and we need e new jail, badly.
Charles Eichholtz-I know we need new
court house, and a good one.
A. McDougai, Gypsum-I am for new
court house.
Rodolph Hatfield am most decidedly in
favor of the city buying the present court
house. The city needs it and the county
needs a much larger court house.
Capt John B Carey--I am infsvor of the
move. The finest city in Kansas and one OF
the very best coun'ies in the state should
have better court house than We now have.
I am in favor OF public improvements and
individuals doing the same.
N. F. Nei ierlander-i am In favor Of
new court house, good court house, and l
want the city to buy the old one if they can
get it for what it is worth.
John Stices-Don't you know that is q good
idea, just the thing that ought to be done!
S. d Halloweil-Tnat is the very thing; !
have been in favor Of that for two years.
CEMENT WORKS AND BRICK YARD.
The shaft being sunk by the Cement
Works company on the Rivervie~ farm,
about five miles southeast OF the city, has
reached depth of ifty-eight feet. At a
was struck which is eleven feet thick Under |
the gypsum is a vein Of clay which is thought |
to be near six feet thick. Under this i |
probably second vein of gypsum near |
thirty feet thick.
The reason for believing that there IL an
other vein of such thickness comes from the |
fact that in sinking we'll near by such |
strata were fouad and there seems to be no
evidence for believing that the strata are
not similar aud the same Phenomena will be
found. Hands are busily employed sinking |
the shaft and will rush the work as rapidly
as possible.
If the second vein Of gypsum proves
to be as good as expected, then
it will not be long until tho works ore ready
for operating. All the machinery necessary
has been secured AMI will be shipped as soon
as the shaft Is ready.
Arrangements for switch from the Santa
F. have been made. Thu shaft is but a short
distance from the line and as soon a. needed
q switch will be built.
There is second scheme on foot which
will make the switch of double USE Before
reaching the first vein o. gypsum a vein near
thirty feet thick Of brick clay is passed
through. The clay has beon tested aud pro
aounced OF superior merit A ST. Louis gen
Il man was shown the iadu cement for enter
ing into the brick business and was very
much pleased with the vein He looked at
the vein near ten days ago and returned
D ,me with the intention OF interesting some
practical brick makers in that city. They
we're gentlemen of means and had sent HIM
20 this city 20 look over tbs facilities for
starting an enterprise OF that sort. He said
a. would make quite favorable report and
'et sure that the gentlemen would start .
,lapt there